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Cape Florida Lighthouse-The Dead Man Beside Me
February 20, 2024 - The Dead Man Beside Me
The history of the Cape Florida Lighthouse is 200 years long and protracted with such events as...
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The Lost City of Saint Joseph
April 07, 2020 - The Lost City (and Lighthouses) of Saint Joseph -
The St. Joseph Bay Lighthouse was a white washed brick conical 55 foo...
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Sleepy Hamlet by the Sea
October 02, 2019 - Sleepy Hamlet By The Sea -
Peggy's Cove may seem like a sleepy hamlet but one visit there will convince you otherwise....
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Build Them Stout, Build Them to Last
July 02, 2019 - Grays Harbor Lighthouse -
Designed by German-born architect Carl Leick, the Grays Harbor Light, also known as the Westp...
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Port Aransas Light - Who's Got the Lens ?
May 05, 2019 - Who's Got the Lens? -
The Texas Gulf coastline is over 400 miles long and an almost continuous string of barrier island...
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Woman Lightkeeper
December 13, 2018 - The Woman Lightkeeper -
Some locals said she could not do this job. They said that it was too tough for a woman to hand...
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A Fishing Village
March 31, 2018 - A Fishing Village
The Island of ONA was once a thriving population of 50. Over the last six decades it has dwindled to...
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Portland Head Lighthouse at Dusk
August 27, 2017 - Portland Head Lighthouse at Dusk -
in 1787, at the personal direction of George Washington, two masons from Falmouth (m...
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Candy Striper
May 14, 2017 - The Candy Striper -
The West Quoddy Lighthouse is the easternmost lighthouse in the contiguous U.S. Built on a easterly...
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Lester the Pig
February 27, 2017 - Hey Lester -
The cargo ship Carrier Pigeon bound for San Francisco from Boston ran aground on the shores of Pigeon Poin...
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Do You Know How to Drive ?
November 27, 2016 - Can You Drive?
When Eugene Coleman and his wife were first reassigned as light keeper's to the Nauset Lighthouse at Eas...
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Isolated Island
September 25, 2016 - Isolated -
On the small island of Vikaholmane at the entrance to Skudeneshavn harbor lies this lighthouse or navigation...
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Lindesnes -At the Edge of the World
August 14, 2016 - Lindesnes Lighthouse -
On a small headland on Norway's most southern tip is the Lindesnes "Fyr" or lighthouse (in engli...
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Cranberry Red
March 07, 2016 - I Have An Idea, Let's Paint it... RED!
The Coquille River Lighthouse, known as Bandon Light to the locales, was first l...
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Landmark Lighthouse
November 16, 2015 - Bass Harbor Sunday
On a peaceful Sunday morning I the walked through the forested canopy from the parking lot down to t...
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Drummer Boy
October 25, 2015 - The New Castle Light
On the afternoon of December 14, 1774 a drummer boy marched alongside a local liberty-minded forme...
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Campobello Island Lighthouse
October 05, 2015 - Campobello Island Lighthouse -
The lighthouse is only accessible at very low tide and located just a few miles from w...
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The Nubble in Deep Space
August 20, 2015 - Nubble Light
As an icon and classic American lighthouse simply known as "Nubble", this stalwart lighthouse is... Famous...
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Go East Old Man, Go East
August 02, 2015 - West Quoddy Light -
Known as the candy striped lighthouse, this USCG operated aid to navigation stands guard over the Q...
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Run Forrest Run !
July 09, 2015 - Run Forrest Run!
At a young age the fictional Forrest had to walk with leg braces. When he encountered those bully kids...
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Faithfully Unfaltering
June 16, 2015 - The First Lighthouse
Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same,
Year after year, through all the silent night
Burns on...
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Pemaquid Reflections
June 03, 2015 - Pemaquid Lighthouse, Maine -
What do the native American Abanakis, the Vikings, shipwrecks, the War of 1812, ghostly im...
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The Lookout
March 22, 2015 - Cape Blanco Lookout
This is the view from the point at Cape Blanco Oregon looking south. It was named so by spanish exp...
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Closer to Hawaii
January 18, 2015 - Point Arena Lighthouse
Located about 130 miles north of San Francisco in Mendocino County is Point Arena, California. T...
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Little Stack of Bricks
September 21, 2014 - Little Stack of Bricks
The Old Point Loma lighthouse known as light number 355 of the 12th U. S. Lighthouse District, f...
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Fantastic Island
July 27, 2014 - Fantastic Island of Ona
While it is true I am very partial to Norway, the island of Ona would captivate most travelers...
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Terrible Tilly - A Story of Death and the Macabre
June 01, 2014 - Terrible Tilly
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, some 134 feet tall, also referred to as Terrible Tilly, is arguably the most...
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Footsteps in the Dark
April 27, 2014 - Yaquina Head Lighthouse - Footsteps in the Dark
Standing 93 feet tall (28.5 meters) atop a 162 foot seaside cliff, Yaqu...
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Eigerøy Fyr
April 01, 2014 - Eigerøy Fyr (Lighthouse) -
The word for lighthouse in Norwegian is "fyr". So in keeping with my norwegian heritage, I a...
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Ona Island Lighthouse
March 28, 2014 - Ona Island Lighthouse -
On a remote island off the west coast of Norway lies the once thriving fishing village communit...
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